benefit
Usage
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Benefit refers to anything that promotes the welfare or improves the state of a person or group: a benefit to society. Advantage refers to anything that places one in an improved position, especially in coping with competition or difficulties: It is to one's advantage to have traveled widely. Profit refers to any valuable, useful, or helpful gain: to one’s intellectual profit.
Example Sentences
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"It comes from the right place, that nervousness," he says, "but at the same time, more and more evidence is growing and we're getting the results" and that "there is a benefit" to men.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Now, however, I am a senior citizen who can look at events with the benefit of perspective and hindsight, and thus I have decided to forgive Don Nelson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
One of the peculiar things about these machines is that they seem to benefit from positive reinforcement, just like mere humans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
If families can use pretax money for at least part of their contributions, they’re now getting a tax benefit upfront for making a tax-savvy move that will pay off later.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Additionally, the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Scientists have long known that dietary fiber contributes to these benefits because gut microbes help break it down.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
At higher income levels, up to 85% of your benefits can be included in taxable income.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Officials said other benefits of minimising outdoor lighting included lower carbon emissions and energy costs.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
This will add bureaucratic headaches and reduce some of the waiver’s benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
His relationship with Hugo has not improved, but Helmuth knows having Hugo's last name, Hübener, will have its benefits.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Arizona and Nevada, which depend on California for fuel, have also benefited.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Over many decades, homeowners benefited handsomely from leverage, because they were able to borrow cheaply for 30 years at low fixed interest rates.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
They defended the status quo against various liberation movements and labor coalitions, fighting to keep everything as it had always been in service of the people who most benefited from the old arrangement.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Did taking all that time also create an intimacy that benefited the film?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The rich benefited from the new industry and from Great Britain’s burgeoning empire.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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Blanche has taken steps to curry Murkowski’s favor in recent months, visiting Alaska and announcing a $400-million settlement benefiting Alaska natives’ healthcare in July.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Car sales have been surprisingly strong in 2026, benefiting from the so-called wealth effect tied to the boom in U.S. stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
At the time, the industry was benefiting from murky public-health messaging around drinking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Alex Vatanka, another senior fellow from the Middle East Institute, summed up the situation, describing it as a "lose-lose equation" in which "neither side is benefiting."
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Since when did Ritu auntie think in terms of benefiting a woman’s career?
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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Along with other industrial firms such as France's Schneider Electric and Switzerland's ABB, Siemens has benefitted from demand for data centres that provide the computing power for AI.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
In the new era of revenue sharing, particularly because of NIL rights, student athletes have benefitted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The backdrop has Conger’s team underweight on the Magnificent Seven and semiconductors, which have benefitted from the artificial-intelligence spending blitz.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
There isn't a cop in the city who hasn't been charmed by them, nor a local business that hasn't benefitted hugely from the Tartan Army dollar.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Like most things in the Night Zoo, the terms and conditions held by its indentured workers only benefitted one person.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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Meanwhile Chinese brands have been moving aggressively onto international markets, introducing new technologies while benefitting from lower production costs than European rivals.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Semiconductors and semiconductor equipment, which are closest to the physical bottlenecks of the AI buildout, have been among the sectors benefitting most from the spending boom.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
It was a starry, starry night at Thursday’s sold-out Hollywood Bowl Netflix is a Joke Presents: Night of Too Many Stars epic comic bonanza fundraiser benefitting autism programs nationwide, including Autism Speaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
At first they made money from illegal logging and plantations, later benefitting from a speculative property boom in the cities fuelled by Chinese investors.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
We've no business to complain of a situation we're all benefitting by.
From Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair
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